The catfish genome database, cBARBEL (abbreviated from catfish Breeder And Researcher Bioinformatics Entry Location) is an online open-access database for genome biology of ictalu...
Jianguo Lu, Eric Peatman, Qing Yang, Shaolin Wang,...
Background: Computational analysis of metagenomes requires the taxonomical assignment of the genome contigs assembled from DNA reads of environmental samples. Because of the diver...
Ozkan U. Nalbantoglu, Samuel F. Way, Steven H. Hin...
The Protein Information Resource (PIR) produces the largest, most comprehensive, annotated protein sequence database in the public domain, the PIRInternational Protein Sequence Da...
Winona C. Barker, John S. Garavelli, Hongzhan Huan...
: One of the most evident achievements of bioinformatics is the development of methods that transfer biological knowledge from characterised proteins to uncharacterised sequences. ...
Emmanuel D. Levy, Christos A. Ouzounis, Walter R. ...
We define new measures of sequence similarity for oligonucleotide probe design. These new measures incorporate the nearest neighbor k-stem motifs in their definition, but can be e...
Anthony J. Macula, Alexander Schliep, Morgan A. Bi...
Given a point set S and an unknown metric d on S, we study the problem of efficiently partitioning S into k clusters while querying few distances between the points. In our model ...
Konstantin Voevodski, Maria-Florina Balcan, Heiko ...
Background: Several semantic similarity measures have been applied to gene products annotated with Gene Ontology terms, providing a basis for their functional comparison. However,...
Catia Pesquita, Daniel Faria, Hugo P. Bastos, Ant&...
Background: Protein alignments are an essential tool for many bioinformatics analyses. While sequence alignments are accurate for proteins of high sequence similarity, they become...
Florian Teichert, Jonas Minning, Ugo Bastolla, Mar...
Background: Sequence alignments form part of many investigations in molecular biology, including the determination of phylogenetic relationships, the prediction of protein structu...
Pierre M. Durand, Scott Hazelhurst, Theresa L. Coe...
A common task in biological research is to predict function for proteins by comparing sequences between proteins of known and unknown function. This is often done using pair-wise ...